Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14

are interesting. The bay mare Marie
Russell, understood to be thoroughbred.
was bred to the chestnut thoroughbred
chestnut filly Sally Russell. She was
bred to the gray horse Pilot, Jr., and the
produce was the gray filly Miss Russell.
She has produced 16 foals; six Of them
Six of them were by the bay horse Bel
mont; three of the six are chestnut, two
gray and one bay. Seven of Miss Rus
sells are by the bay horse Harold; four
of the seven are gray, two chestnuts and
one bay Woodford Mambrino sired one
of Miss Russell's foals, chestnut. The
gray mare Midnight has transmitted her
color to five of her ten foals, which are as
follows:
Midas, br. c.. foaled 1869, by Woodford Nam
brine.
Dawn, gr. f., foaled 1870, by Belmont
MONDAY or. f., foaled 1871, by st. Elmo.
Beautiful, CHI. c., foaled 1872 by Belmont.
Noontde, or. f., foaled 1874, by Harold.
Halliday, gr c., foaled 1915, by Harold.
Daybreak, gr. f., foaled 1876, by Harold.
jay Eye See, blk. c., toaled 1873, by Dictator.
- CHI. f., foaled lss2, by Prescott
Electricity, br. c., foaled 1884, by Electoneer
Draco Princes dam and her produce
furnish another interesting case. Draco
Princes fifth dam was a bay mare, which
was bred to gray horse. The produce
was gray filly, which in time was bred
to chestnut Morgan, and the produce
was gray filly, which was known, when
grown, as the Gov. Converse mare, noted
for her road qualities and great endur-
ance. The Converse mare was bred to
bay horse, known as the Rice Horse, by
the Babbitt Horse, son of Woodbury. !;
the produce was gray filly that was the
grandam Of Draco Prince. He was bred
to light bay horse with Dexter's marks
that was son of Vermont Black Hawk.
The produce was gray filly, which was
the dam of Draco Prince. The follow
ing are the foals that she brought:
CIR f., toaled 1859, by Cheeney's Lightfoot, son
OF Biggarts Rather.
Blk. c., Draco Prince, toaled 1860, by Draco.
Horse, son OF Hale's Green Mountain.
CIR. c., foaled 1862, by Morse Horse.
CIR. f., toaled 1863 by Morse Horse.
CIR. f., foaled 1864, by Draco.
OR. f., foaled 1865 by Woodstock son OF Young
Morrill,.
CIR. f., foaled 1866, by Gen. Stark grandson OF
Old Morrill,
CHI. or sorrell FLY. foaled 1867.
b. c.. foaled 1885, by Draco, I'd, son of Wood.
stock from Draco's dam.
She brought two or three more colts
that we do not know about and died at
Cream Hill about 1873.
1t will be seen that Draco Princes dam
and her gray colts inherited their gray
color from the gray horse that sired her
great-great-grand and how this single
gray cross triumphed over the other col
ors that it came in contact with. Gray
Hawk, Jr., is an example of a horse hav-
ing more than one cross of gray color,
and it will be seen how prepotent he was
in transmitting it. His sire, Gray Hawk,
took his gray color from his dam which
was by gray horse, blood unknown
Gray Hawk, Jr's., dam was light chest
nut with white hairs mixed in. Her dam
was dark chestnut by Old Clifford her
sire was gray horse, whose sire and
dam were both gray. This gave Gray
Hawk, Jr., three crosses of Gray color in
his pedigree, seven-eights of his colts
were gray. The gray color in horse is
an questionable color. Almost every
one has prejudice against it, aud fancy
for some other color. 1t is understood
that horse of gray color is just as sure
to make good horse in every respect
from the often-repeated expression, IF
he was a bay, "A chestnut or a black, he
would be just what was wanted" For
all there is such a prejudice against the
color, gray horses will be bred from be-
cause there are so many good ones that
are gray. If the gray mares Miss Rus
sell and Midnight had not produced foals,
we should not have had Maud ). or JAY
Eye-See, and gray foals that they pro-
duce will be bred from because Of their
high blood Experiments have been
made by breeders to prevent the gray
color from being transmitted, and in some
instances they have been in part success
full. The gray horse Nutbourne, by
Belmont, from Maud SIS dam, at first
transmitted his color to majority of his
foals. The season Of 1884 bay horse
was led in front of the mare as soon as
served and the majority OF the foals for
1885 were bays and chestnuts. Jacob
with his peeled rods was able to mark his
calves before they were born, and upon
the same principle the color of an off
spring can be changed before its birth.
In South America spotted horses are very
much desired and the waving of Loop
ard skin before the horse and mare causes
the foal, it is claimed, to be spotted. This